On Tue, 2010-11-23 at 14:25 -0500, Steve Lianoglou wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Tom Short <[email protected]> wrote: > [snip] > > That would probably work fine for most of my uses, but I'm worried > > about consistency with data frames. data.frame defaults to > > auto-conversion and has a stringsAsFactors argument that defaults to > > default.stringsAsFactors() that in turn uses > > options('stringsAsFactors'). Here's a tentative vote for adding a > > stringsAsFactors argument that works like data.frame's. The down sides > > are an added argument and use of a global option. > > I'm not sure I see the same pitfalls of having an extra argument, > since it has a (reasonable) default value and I think it can largely > be ignored by the user w/o really changing how data.table(...) works > now in any surprising way. > > Anyway, I think I'm a +1 for the stringsAsFactors param. > > Added feature request for this one : https://r-forge.r-project.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1224&group_id=240&atid=978
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